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      Organisational Chaos - Senior Software Engineer Personio Employee Review

      1.0
      Mar 11, 2023
      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits. Nice colleagues who are keen to help out.

      Cons

      Very weak leadership. They take decisions affecting employees without measuring their impact and don't dare to communicate them in a personal way (a mere slack message in a channel you will likely miss). Vision. Nobody seems to know what they are doing: managers, their managers and product seem clueless and barely nobody takes decisions. Again, probably related to the weak leadership. Never-ending amount of meetings where nothing is decided and take enormous amounts of time of people to do their actual work, which forces some to work extra hours and creates conflicts as others don't (and they shouldn't by the way).

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      Hi, thank you for reaching out with your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that your experience hasn’t been entirely positive. As we want to make sure we’re able to provide a great people experience to all of our employees, we take your points seriously and have already communicated them to leadership and people partners. Please do reach out to your team’s People Partner, as they are there to help support you with these challenges and scenarios. Or, if you would like to share more details or discuss your feedback further, please feel free to reach out to me at cassandra.hoermann@personio.de

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      5.0
      Oct 14, 2025
      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      My coworkers are wonderful, I feel energized coming to work everyday

      Cons

      The company has had a lot of churn at Director+ levels, not a clear vision across the company

      1.0
      Oct 30, 2025
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Smart collaborative colleagues at the lower IC levels.

      Cons

      Personio is a dying company. The over-complexity of the company's technical systems is comical. Every attempt to simplify seems to lead to more complexity as things get half migrated and left to rot. Engineering leadership seems clueless and unable to present a clear plan-of-action to get things on track. Principal engineers force engineering time to be spent on silly projects that don't move the needle long-term. There is an overall aversion to taking the time to learn deeply about systems being used. Personio feels like a combination of all of the negatives of both a startup and a mature tech company, with none of the positives. The tech is half assed and duct taped together, but still somehow everything moves at a glacial pace. There is a mass shared delusion at the company that an IPO is in reach. No investor is going to buy this company's junk shares on the open market.

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